HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers

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Table 1: System information that the Foundation Agent collects
Information collected
Source
High-level server information
(Host name, System role, OS installed)
Windows OS
System Performance
(OS statistics, CPU and memory utilization)
Windows OS
File System information
(Logical Drives, Drive utilization)
Windows OS
HP software installed
Windows Registry
Clustering information
Windows OS
In addition to collecting high-level system information, the Foundation Agent has additional roles. It
is responsible for the low-level execution of all SNMP Sets within the Insight architecture. We will
cover this function later in the section on SNMP Services.
Server Agent
The HP Insight Server Agent collects the basic server information, including the server’s key
subsystems configurations and health information. Table 2 lists the categories of information that
the Server Agent collects and the sources for this information.
Table 2: Information the Server Agent collects
Information collected
Source
Server hardware information
(Product ID, serial #, board revisions)
SM BIOS
CPU configuration
SM BIOS
Memory installed
SM BIOS and System Management driver
PCI devices and system slots
SM BIOS, Windows OS
Sensor information
(fans, temperature, power supplies and redundancy)
System Management (Health) driver
Critical events (hardware errors)
HP Integrated Management Log (IML)
Management processor information
iLO
BladeSystem enclosure information
ROM BIOS
Storage Agent
The HP Insight Storage Agent collects and delivers the core storage-related information, including
information on storage controllers and their logical and physical drives. The Storage Agent supports
HP SmartArray controllers as well as Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and SAS HBAs. It also
provides basic information on storage box enclosures. Using the HP storage drivers, the Storage
Agent obtains most of this information from the disk controller firmware, although it obtains some
from the drives (Table 3).